COLOUR OF SPRING: THE POLL

let’s not forget the three B-Sides

This is the only Talk Talk album I feel like messing with:

Side 1
Happiness is Easy
Life's What You Make It
Pictures of Bernadette
It's Getting Late in the Evening

Side 2
Living in Another World
Give It Up
For What It's Worth
Time It's Time

"I Don't Believe in You" is too MOR (I wince when the horn section comes in at the final prechorus), and the "gauzy, downbeat" tracks are outclassed by their subsequent work (as well as the tracks that I've replaced them with).

Needs more April 5th

Yeah I can see thinking “Chameleon Day” as a practice run for what came next, but “April 5th” is its own little sound world, a really singular piece of music.

I find the programmed percussion on that song aggravating, "It's Getting Late in the Evening" does something similar, better.

LOL I feel the other way around: I love the programmed percussion and think it distinguishes/prevents the song from being a Spirit of Eden practice run like “It’s Getting Late In The Evening” (though I adore the weightless midsection of the latter).